Publications

Newsletter

CSANA has been publishing its newsletter annually since our founding in 1977, providing a snapshot into the history of academic Celtic Studies in North America. We currently publish one issue in the Fall (Samhain) and one in the Spring (Beltaine) distributed directly to members over the listserv. An archive of past issues has made available here on the website (excepting the most recent issues). The numbering of newsletters below reflects the numbering as printed on the final published issue. For questions or suggestions about the newsletter, please contact the Newsletter Editor.

CSANA would like to acknowledge and thank the work of our present and past newsletter editors: Morgan Moore (2020 – present), Jimmy Miller (2013 – 2019), and Charles MacQuarrie (2001 – 2012). Prior to Charles MacQuarrie’s inaugural tenure as the dedicated Newsletter Editor, the CSANA newsletter was edited by the Vice President as part of their duties of office (and originally, for the first two issues, by the inaugural Secretary-Treasurer, Daniel Melia). CSANA would like to especially recognize and thank Dan for founding the newsletter, and Charlie for shaping the vision of the newsletter as it exists today!

CSANA Yearbook

Prior to the launch of the North American Journal of Celtic Studies, CSANA published a series of themed Yearbooks. By the time of our journal’s launch, twelve such yearbooks had been published across nine physical volumes with Four Courts Press (Yearbooks 1-7) and later Colgate University Press (Yearbooks 8-12).

The Individual in Celtic Literature (2001)
Helen Fulton Individual and Society in Owein/Yvain and Gereint/Erec Elva Johnston The Salvation of the Individual and the Salvation of Society in Siaburcharpat Con Culaind Catherine McKenna Apotheosis and Evanescence: The Fortunes of Saint Brigit in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Aideen O’Leary Mog Ruith and Apocalypticism in Eleventh-Century Ireland Brynley F. Roberts Where Were the Four Branches of the Mabinogi Written?
Yearbook 1, Edited by Joseph Falaky Nagy

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Identifying the “Celtic” (2002)
Jacqueline Borsje Approaching Danger: Togail Bruidne Da Derga and the Motif of Being One-Eyed Sioned Davies Performing from the Pulpit: An Introduction to Preaching in Nineteenth-Century Wales Patrick K. Ford Amazon dot Choin Philip Freeman Who Were the Atecotti? Catherine McKenna Between Two Worlds: Saint Brigit and Pre-Christian Religion in the Vita Prima Peter McQuillan Gaoidhealg as the Pragmatic Mode in Irish Thomas O’Loughlin A Celtic Theology: Some Awkward Questions and Observations Maria Tymoczko What Questions Should We Ask in Celtic Studies in the New Millennium?
Yearbook 2, Edited by Joseph Falaky Nagy

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Heroic Poets and Poetic heroes in Celtic Traditions (2005)
Anders Ahlqvist Is acher in gaíth . . . úa Lothlind Kate Chadbourne The Voices of Hounds: Heroic Dogs and Men in the Finn Ballads and Tales Paula Powers Coe Manawydan’s Set and Other Iconographic Riffs Morgan Thomas Davies The Death of Dafydd ap Gwilym Elizabeth A. Gray The Warrior, The Poet and the King: ‘The Three Sins of the Warrior’ and Cú Roí R. Geraint Gruffydd The Praise of Tenby: A Late-Ninth-Century Welsh Court Poem Joseph Harris North Sea Elegy and Para Literary History Marged Haycock Sy abl fodd, Sibli fain: Sibyl in Medieval Wales Máire Herbert Becoming an Exile: Colum Cille in Middle-Irish Poetry Barbara Hillers Poet or Magician: Mac Mhuirich Mór in Oral Tradition Jerry Hunter Poets, Angels and Devilish Spirits: Elis Gruffydd’s Meditations on Idolatry Colin Ireland The Poets Cædmon and Colmán mac Lénéni: The Anglo Saxon Layman and the Irish Professional H. A. Kelly Medieval Heroics Without Heroes or Epics Geraint H. Jenkins The Bard of Liberty During William Pitt’s Reign of Terror Leslie Ellen Jones Boys in Boxes: The Recipe for a Welsh Hero Kathryn A. Klar Poetry and Pillowtalk John T. Koch De sancto Iudicaelo rege historia and its Implications for the Welsh Taliesin Heather Feldmeth Larson The Veiled Poet: Líadain and Cuirithir and the Role of the Woman-Poet Catherine McKenna Vision and Revision, Iteration and Reiteration, in Aislinge Meic Con Glinne Daniel F. Melia On the Form and Function of the ‘Old-Irish Verse’ in the Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus Tomás Ó Cathasaigh Cú Chulainn, The Poets, and Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe Brynley F. Roberts Breuddwyd Maxen Wledig: Why? When? Patrick Sims-Williams Person Switching in Celtic Panegyric: Figure or Fault? Edgar M. Slotkin Maelgwn Gwynedd: Speculations On A Common Celtic Legend Pattern Robin Chapman Stacey Instructional Riddles in Welsh Law Eve E. Sweetser The Metaphorical Construction of a Poetic Hero and His Society Maria Tymoczko Sound and Sense: Joyce’s Aural Esthetics Calvert Watkins The Old Irish Word for ‘Flesh-Fork’ Donna Wong Poetic Justice/Comic Relief: Aogán Ó Rathaille?s Shoes and the Mock-Warrant Joseph Falaky Nagy Bibliography of Patrick K . Ford.
Yearbook 3-4, Edited by Joseph Falaky Nagy and Leslie Ellen Jones

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Memory and the Modern in Celtic Literatures (2006)
Mícheál Mac Craith Fun and Games among the Jet Set: A Glimpse of Seventeenth-Century Gaelic Ireland Catherine McKenna Aspects of Tradition Formation in Eighteenth-Century Wales Damian McManus ‘The smallest man in Ireland can reach the tops of her trees’: Images of the King’s Peace and Bounty in Bardic Poetry Máirtín Ó Briain Satire in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Gaelic Poetry Ruairí Ó hUiginn Growth and Development in the Late Ulster Cycle: The Case of Táin Bó Flidais
Yearbook 5, Edited by Joseph Falaky Nagy

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Myth in Celtic Literatures (2007)
Phillip A. Bernhardt-House Horses, Hounds, and High Kings: A Shared Arthurian Tradition Across the Irish Sea? Rebecca Blustein Poets and Pillars in Cath Maige Tuired Ranke de Vries The Names of Lí Bán Denell Downum Suibhne, Citation, and the Myth of Originality Jessica Hemming Ancient Tradition or Authorial Invention? The ‘Mythological’ Names in the Four Branches Catherine McKenna The Colonization of Myth in Branwen Ferch Lír Antone Minard Colorful Monsters: The Afanc in Medieval Welsh Narrative Thomas O’Loughlin The Myth of Insularity and Nationality in Ireland Kathryn Stelmach Dead Deirdre? Myth and Mortality in the Irish Literary Revival
Yearbook 6, Edited by Joseph Falaky Nagy

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Law, Literature and Society (2008)
Paul Russell Poets, Power and Possessions in Medieval Ireland: Some Stories from Sanas Cormaic Michael Meckler The Assassination of Diarmait mac Cerbaill Sara Elin Roberts Emerging from the Bushes: The Welsh Law of Women in the Legal Triads Lahney Preston-Matto Derbforgaill’s Literary Heritage: Can You Blame Her? Karen Eileen Overbey Female Trouble: Ambivalence and Anxiety at the Nuns’ Church Timothy P. Bridgman Names and Naming Conventions Concerning Celtic Peoples in Some Early Ancient Greek Authors
Yearbook 7, Edited by Joseph F. Eska

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Narrative in Celtic Traditions (2011)
Dorothy Ann Bray The Vita Prima of St. Brigit: A Preliminary Analysis of Its Composition Timothy Corrigan Correll Priests and Pisheogues: Fairy Healers, Religious Condemnation, and Narrative Approbation in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Ireland Joanne Findon Fabula, Story, and Text: The Case of Compert Conchbuir Hugh Fogarty Aislinge Óenguso: A Remscél Reconsidered Patrick K. Ford Later Prose Prefaces to Medieval Welsh Poetry Helen Fulton Magic Naturalism in the Táin bó Cúailnge Elissa R. Henken ‘Then Was Spoken the Proverb…’: The Proverb Legend in Medieval Celtic Literature Kaarina Hollo Allegoresis and Literary Creativity in Eighth-Century Ireland: The Case of Echtrae Chonnlai Jerry Hunter From Death Token to O. Henry Ending: Traditional Narrative and the Early Fiction of Kate Roberts Charles MacQuarrie Recognizing Gods in Guises: Identity, Performance, and Performative reading in O’Donnell’s Kern Catherine McKenna Angels and Demons in the Pages of Lebor na hUidre Daniel Frederick Melia Naked Men, Naked Humor, Naked Narrative? Joseph Falaky Nagy The Wisdom of the Couch Potato Tomás Ó Cathasaigh Aspects of Memory and Identity in Early Ireland Brynley F. Roberts Ystoriaeu Brenhinedd Ynys Brydeyn: A Fourteenth-Century Welsh Brut Patrick Sims-Williams Tochmarc Becfhola: A ‘Peculiar Confused Tale’? Maria Tymoczko Rewritings, Self-Reflexivity, and the Narrative of Celtic Studies Andrew Welsh Myths, Folktales, and Meaning Dan M. Wiley The Politics of Myth in Airne Fíngein
Yearbook 8-9, Edited by Joseph F. Eska

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Proceedings of the CSANA Annual Meeting of 2008 (2011)
Timothy P. Bridgman Names and Naming Conventions Concerning Peoples Identified as Celtic in the Works of Posidonius of Apamea Dylan Foster Evans On the Lips of Strangers: The Welsh Language, the Middle Ages, and Ethnic Diversity Katherine R. Frazier More Than a Name: Place-Name Literature within Táin Bó Cúailnge Charles Gerard Larkin Celts in the Holy Land Patricia Malone ‘There Has Been Treachery from the Beginning’: The Historia Gruffudd ap Cynan as Narrative Hybrid Catherine McKenna The Prince, the Poet, and the Scribe: Reflections on the Elegiac Tradition in Medieval Wales Daniel F. Melia The Rhetoric of Patrick’s Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus Lahney Preston-Matto Derbforgaill before the Anglo-Norman Invasion: Sovereignty Goddess or Political Hostage in Twelfth-Century Ireland? William Sayers Celtic Kingship Motifs Associated with Bishop Aidan of Lindisfarne in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Sarah K. Sieracki A Common Celtic and Norse Genesis: The Mythological Evidence Edgar M. Slotkin Frank O’Connor’s Irish Story
Yearbook 10, Edited by Joseph F. Eska

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Rhetoric and Reality in Medieval Celtic Literature (2014)
Karen E. Burgess Bibliography of Daniel Frederick Melia Annalee C. Rejhon ‘Jeopardy Guy’: the Curious Life and Turbulent Times of Professor Daniel F. Melia Dara Hellman Gereint as Rhetorical Question: Curating Continuity Anders Ahlqvist A Rhetorical Poem in Longes mac nUislenn Thomas Owen Clancy Early Gaelic Nature Poetry Revisited Morgan Thomas Davies Anecdota from Irish Manuscripts Patrick K. Ford Dafydd Ap Gwilym Paints a Picture William Gillies From Milk-Cow Blues to Hardheaded Women: Decoding the Bard Macintyre Georgia Henley Through the Ethnographer’s Eyes: Rhetoric, Ethnicity and Quotation in Gerald of Wales’s Welsh and Irish Works Matthew Holmberg Triple Utterances and Curse-Poles: a Common Form of Northern European Satire? David Howlett Sonid’s Ogam Signature Kathryn A. Klar The Balance of Power: Realpolitik in Ancient Ireland Kim McCone A Brief Ornithology Of Sex Catherine McKenna The Grammar, Rhetoric and Exegetical Logic of Ultán’s Hymn Joseph Falaky Nagy Death By Pillow Tomás Ó Cathasaigh The Making of a Prince: Áed Oll fri Andud n-Áne Paul Russell Horticultural Genealogy and Genealogical Horticulture: the Metaphors of Welsh Plant and Old Irish Cland Robin Chapman Stacey Druids And Their Uses Eve Sweetser Advantage and Disadvantage: Cognate Formulas for a Welsh and Irish Topos of Otherworldly Ambiguity
Yearbook 11-12, Edited by Georgia Henley and Paul Russell